What Was I Scared Of?

The Story

What's a pair of empty green trousers doing standing by itself in the woods?Or riding a bike in Grin-itch? Or fishing on Roover River? The narratorcertainly doesn't want to find out but wherever he goes, he's haunted by thespooky empty pants. Finally, when the two find themselves hiding from eachother in a Snide bush the terrified narrator realizes, 'I was just as strangeto him as he was strange to me.' This little Seussian gem, plucked from theback of 'The Sneetches and Other Stories' shines on it own as it deliversa timeless message about fear and tolerance.